After receiving a $93,088 bid to purchase the cameras the council agreed it was necessary to install the equipment in each police cruiser.
The mayor stated these cameras were necessary for the safety of the officers as well as the citizens.
“If we had had these camera when incident (the shooting at the Shell Station on March 5) happened we could at least seen what happened,” said Leitchfield Mayor William H. Thomason.
The camera will be activated at all times and also have a GPS system that will keep track of where the car is located.
In other business:
• The city heard the first reading on the rezoning of the property owned by Bobby Salsman at 11 McDonalds Road and denied the zone change on the recommendation of the Planning Commission.
“This zone change goes against state law,” said Leitchfield Planning Director Keith Jones. “So the Planning Commission has voted to not to approve it.”
Salsman is selling the property to Jason Dennis who wanted the property changed to commercial so he could open an automobile restoration company.
Dennis questioned the council about the request being denied.
“I do not want to do collision work but restoration of cars,” said Dennis. “I have looked everywhere and this is the only property I have found that will work and I can afford. I am just trying to start a business and need some help here.”
Dennis said he had a full-time job in Elizabethtown and will use the shop to restore maybe four vehicles a year.
He also added that he spoke to all the neighbors and did not get any objection from them.
The mayor recommended the request be sent back to the Planning Commission to review.
• The council received notice there would be a rate increase at the Leitchfield Landfill and reviewed a complaint that local contractors were leaving old carpet in dumpsters for the city to pick up.
It was recommended contractors take the carpet directly to the landfill like other construction workers are required to do but no action was taken.
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